Sam Perlozzo Quotations

When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.

We've beaten him a few times, but he's pitched pretty well against us a few times. He had that little cut fastball with two strikes on the inner half that seemed to freeze up our right-hand hitters. We couldn't get anything going offensively off him.

Yell at them for what? For not getting a hit? When they quit trying and get lazy I'll yell at all of them.

We're better than we're playing; we just need to concentrate a little more. It's not OK not to execute. ... As a team, I told them it's not going to happen next year. It's not acceptable.

There are two things. One, you know that you've got a guy that knows what the heck he's doing, and the second is that any manager wants somebody he can trust. If you can't trust your best friend, who can you?

Let's just be comfortable and happy that we got a good one out of him. I don't want to put too much expectations on the kid -- but you know he has that type of ability.

I was sitting there thinking we keep making a mistake here and there. And that's because everyone is trying so darn hard. And I appreciate that.

I was pointing to the ground and I knocked his mask out. That was unintentional and he knows it.

I have a lot to prove. I'm not afraid of that challenge.

He hasn't said anything to me. Until he mentions it, I won't even approach it. It does me no good to talk to him unless he really wants to do it. I don't think he's anxious right now to take a day off. Maybe later in September he will be.

He said, 'I'm going to get some help and get my life straightened out.' I told him it wasn't going to be easy, and good luck.

He showed he can pitch a little bit. We're willing to give it a shot. He attacked hitters. He didn't show me he was afraid.

He shouldn't be rusty. I just hope he doesn't catch one off his thumb and aggravates it. The only real concern I have is that doesn't happen. Everything else, I'm comfortable with.

I always felt in due time I would be rewarded. I totally believe this was the time it was supposed to be.

I would say that we'll explore something. I don't know if we have something in mind.

I talked to Richie at the time it happened, and we felt if it was going to completely heal, it was going to take about six weeks. You just hope nothing happens to him and he can get through the rest of the month.

I want to thank Ray Miller for all he did, for his support and his professionalism. Ray did an outstanding job and we remain good friends. Leo and I have been best friends for a long time and have always said that if I get the chance to manage, he would be my pitching coach. I'm glad for us that it will happen, but I'm really happy for the Orioles organization that Leo has joined the club. His record speaks for itself.

I think he was in a lot of pain last night and this morning.

I think he deserves some more time to get through this. We've got some veterans that are hitting less than him that we keep running in there. There's been no talk, to me, on him not being here.

I thought his command wasn't as good as we would've liked to have seen it. But his stuff was good.

Managing in the big leagues is a challenge. I knew that from the get-go. Would I prefer it wouldn't be this way? Absolutely. Am I sorry about it? Absolutely not.

That's the kind of game we look for Daniel to have all the time. He was outstanding. Fantastic.

My biggest concern is that Sidney gets the proper help and gets healthy and gets his life in order. I touched base with him (Wednesday), he actually called and thanked me for everything, all the support. He said he'd keep in touch me and I wished him good luck and asked him to please keep in touch with me.

We could have made the game a little more interesting.

We battled all the way to the end. You've got to give them credit. They hung in there.

When we originally sent him down it wasn't because we didn't like him. We wanted him to go down and get things resolved with his delivery and freshen up his arm.

We will monitor him and bring him back at the end when he's ready. We definitely feel like he's going to play again this year. I'd like to see him get back for the last 10 days, anyway.

Everything's status quo. We're just going to sit tight on that and see what happens.

You can't keep going five innings. He's got better stuff to go deeper into the game than that.

It was race to get to it, and we just couldn't get to it.

It's a challenge to deal with it. We have goals. Our thing is that when we're inside the clubhouse we are a team together. That's what I addressed the club with. And that's what we're going to do. When you walk out the door you can do whatever you want, but when you're in here you're together as a team.

I told them to relax because they were making me nervous. We can relax. We're good. We'll be OK.

It just happens. I don't know why it happens.

Damage control. I thought, 'Holy cow, here we go again.' When he got out of that, I said, 'All right. That's a major step.

It's certainly something that I've wanted for a long time. I'm tickled to death. We're ready to move forward.

It's been like that this whole streak here. The few opportunities we have where we hit the ball real good, somebody makes a nice play on it.

It wasn't a good day for that kind of stuff. And everybody we brought in couldn't seem to get anybody out.

If you're gonna let Manny hit something out of the ballpark, is he going to hit your best pitch, your second-best pitch or your third-best pitch? What is it?

In the effort of trying to hold them down, he tried a little too hard, maybe. He just got a few balls up.

I haven't talked to anybody. We have a unique situation where everyone is out of a contract at the end of the year, so it's not surprising he hasn't done anything with me because he's got general managers to take care of, too. It complicates the situation, to say the least.

I probably would rather have not seen it. I'm sure that it helped a little bit, but if I were a betting man, I'd bet it drew attention to it and could possibly make it worse.

I just think it's a failure to get one guy hot. You got nine guys in the lineup. You don't expect nine guys to scuffle. Someone is going to pay for it sooner or later. But that doesn't make me feel good at all. Sooner or later they're going to get their hits. We need them to do it sooner than later. Time is creeping up on us.

Honestly, every time I pencil his name in there and he comes up in the rotation I'm counting on a good game. Whether I get it or I don't, I have that high hope.

Good pitching makes you sluggish, at least makes you look that way.

If Erik were at 80 or 90 pitches he would've stayed in. He's one of these guys who's going to carry us throughout the year and there's no use in stretching him out to a point where he doesn't belong.

He's obviously locked in. I don't know where we'd be without him.

The kid just goes out and plays. He's on a mission, it seems like. He went out the first three times up and took strikes, close pitches. It didn't bother him a lick. I don't think Nick puts any pressure on himself, that I've seen. He might if he struggles up here a little bit, but I've yet to see that.

The last several starts have been good. He's been striking out a lot of people and going deep into the game.